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Perhaps no other plant is as synonymous with the American West as the tumbleweed. But they’re surprisingly new to North America, in fact, they’re an invasive species that didn’t show up until the very end of the “Old West” period. And they’ve become quite a problem over the years. Today we’re looking at the tumbleweed, how it came from the steppes of Russia to become an icon of the American West.

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